Thomas Jefferson Quotes

He who receives ideas from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.

That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and the improvement of his conditions, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like […]

Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility.

Above all things, and at all times, practice yourself in good humor.

If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

Our lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong.

An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.

Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.

The man who is dishonest as a statesman would be a dishonest man in any station.